Hey, thanks for the link. My oldest daughter will love it. She is really into dragons. I am enjoying your dragon inspired designs. Keep up the good work!

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sure anytime I'm glad your daughter will love it.

Oh f**k are you joking? CRAP OUR BRAINS ARE TOO MUCH ALIKE SOMETIMES

Chrissy, I hate to break it to you, but we've been on the same brain path. I'm doing an Alice in Wonderland inspired series using garnet, onyx, sterling hearts and sterling hand pierced grandfather clock hands. I bought a bunch of old antique hands (though they are huge 2-5 inches long) in Nyack and have been cutting them out in sterling for the past few days. Are you using big hands or little ones? And you're cutting them out in sterling? Or are you cutting out gear parts and I'm just freaking out for no reason?

*sigh* well, it's not the first time anyone has done this I suppose. If we didn't know each other I would probably stumble upon your page and be like WOW! SAME IDEA, how NEAT!

But just... um... fyi?

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ha funny! no I bought mine last month at an antique clock store online. they are tiny like 1/2 inch to an inch and they're brass, although some did come black and large in the first pack. I don't want the large ones. You can have my large ones if you want. I decided to leave the tiny ones as brass and solder them onto pierced sterling. I'm using them for the spring series as a part of my nature and time idea. I'll be mixing them with some sculls that I carved and cast, and leaves that I pmc'd. I'm using all different watch parts mixed with nature, as a theme for time, young and old, birth and death, a cyclic thing. I just got half the order of the black ones two weeks ago, and the other back ordered half today. I'll post a pic of what I got, and you can have the larger black ones. I'm not doing the brass ones in silver anymore because I want the mixing of two metals to separate the time aspect from the nature aspect. It's been in my journal for a while now, and I've been updating it as new materials come in. Like the clay flowers and such. I got the idea from an artist on etsy who makes them as earrings. That's really strange, but in a good way. Alice in wonderland sounds awesome. mine is more a generic theme. I had no idea that you were going to use watch pieces also. I've been planning this since my 1st Lotea' journal entry. It's nice to know that we think alike though. My other hearts were left over from the love of dragons series. I wanted my painting to bring about a romantic aspect of dragons, and meld it into the garden time theme for Lotea. I figured they would be good for Valentines day too. My watch parts won't be with my hearts though. They are reserved for the sculls, to represent the passing of time between death and re-birth. I'll set aside the other watch parts if you want them. They came in the first shipment a few weeks ago, and they were too large for me.

So glad that we are doing variations on the idea... and thank you for your generous offer.

I myself have quite a collection from when I was doing those steampunk gear pieces... I never got around to taking pictures of more than one or two of those pendants last year :/ BUT! I have tons of little gears and hands and workings if you would like those. It would be a lovely exchange - big hands to me and all the small hands, pins, and gears to you. I knew 'time' was a founding aspect of your new series, but I guess I imagined you would be more figurative... and since your pocket watch piece was very different than what I'm designing (far more Victorian Fashion-y ~ you know my style), I didn't even think the hands would conflict. And since I was seeing hand wrought chains and your pretty little flowers, I didn't note the amalgamation of media.

But alas, it sounds like they won't. I'm so relieved you are doing small hands and I'm doing work with the rejected big ones. I can't wait to see your new pieces! The "Cyclic" aspect may work really well with all these delicate antique gears to which you are welcome!

Finally, I really am enjoying your Valentine's Collection. Very classy and beautiful! I've been keeping them up in my "recent deviations" so I can admire them.

Let me know if you want my little hands, gears, and movements!

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no worries..The small ones I soldered to sterling, and in fact they were only brass coloured. I called the company, and it turns out they are base metals. They looked brass but they aren't.
and the medium ones that I'm making in silver are completely different than yours they're a totally different style than my 'brass-coloured' ones, and are 1 inch and 1/2.
I would love to trade parts. If you want I'll leave all my large parts w/ killian if he's in the neighborhood.

Sounds great! I know we are crazy busy this week and weekend but I will stick the little love-bundle-of-time in the car for whenever he is around. Hopefully I will be around too since last time I was over, you were out

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cool deal. I will do the same. Except I'll leave it hanging on the fridge in a baggie.

I wont even be using the clock dials anymore, I thought I'd make my own from scratch. This way I can encorporate a nature theme in them from the start, and no one would worry about using similar materials.